[b-greek] Luke 18:34

From: Cassian DelCogliano (cassian@holyroodguild.com)
Date: Wed Feb 07 2001 - 15:25:09 EST


In Luke, after Jesus predicts the passion to the twelve, the narrator says:

KAI AUTOI OUDEN TOUTWN SUNHKAN KAI HN TO RHMA TOUTO KEKPUMMENON AP' AUTWN
KAI OUK EGINWSKON TA LEGOMENA (18:34)

Could EGINWSKON be a conative imperfect?

I would also think that the KAIs are used in such a way that co-ordination
is semantically subordination (I can't think of the technical name for that
at the moment). Does this seem correct?

If my two hunches are plausbile, I would tentatively translate this passage
as follows: "But none of these things made any sense to them, for [the
meaning of] his statement was being kept hidden from them--and yet they
were not even bothering to try to understand what was being said."

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Cassian DelCogliano

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